From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 08:43:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289C316A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpion.eng.ufl.edu (scorpion.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8C7943D1F for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:43:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob88@eng.ufl.edu) Received: (qmail 26026 invoked by uid 7794); 12 Feb 2004 16:43:39 -0000 Received: from bob88@eng.ufl.edu by scorpion by uid 7791 with qmail-scanner-1.16 ( Clear:. Processed in 0.104854 secs); 12 Feb 2004 16:43:39 -0000 Received: from scanner.engnet.ufl.edu (HELO eng.ufl.edu) (128.227.152.221) by scorpion.eng.ufl.edu with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 16:43:39 -0000 Message-ID: <402BAD3A.7080009@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:43:38 -0500 From: Bob Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bbowman@vistacraft.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:43:41 -0000 Warren Block wrote: >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: >=20 >>> I get to the end of step "2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386=99" where it= >>> tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the= >>> computer! Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and= >>> starts over again. How can I get it to go to the kernel setup? >>> >>> My Hardware: >>> IBM PS/Valuepoint 486 33MHz >>> 8 MB RAM >=20 > ^^^^^^^^^^ >=20 > This is likely the problem. The install needs more than 8M, somewhere > between 12 and 16M last I heard. >=20 > If it helps, I have a Valuepoint 486 DX2/66 with 32M of RAM that runs > 4.8 flawlessly. >=20 I've got 4.9 running on a 486/33 with 20 MB of RAM, so if you can scrape = up that much it should be sufficient. It works fine as a personal mail=20 server with Courier, except that the IMAP folders containing over 10,000 = messages cause huge amounts of thrashing when I open them. Takes=20 several minutes. It also takes nearly three days to build 4.9 from source on a 486/33... - Bob